Being A Parent Is Hard!

Being a Parent is Hard! As clinical psychologists working with children, teens, and parents, we are here to make a difficult job just a little easier. Come behind the closed door of the psychotherapy office as we offer insights, hands-on tools, and unique strategies to help you better understand and support your children. Focusing on the challenges of normal development and the more serious concerns that parents bring to us every day, we will discuss issues such as emotional communication, discipline, limit-setting, ADHD, social media, academic pressure, anxiety, bullying, parental disagreements, substance abuse, and more. We will touch on it all. Please join us! Contact us at: beingapersonishardpodcast@gmail.com

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Latest episodes

12 October 2026

Understanding Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This episode features our special guest Randi Zimmerman, LCSW-R, CEDS-S and owner of The Time is Always Now Therapy Group. Ms. Zimmerman joins us to talk about the family, cultural , and psychological forces that contribute to disordered eating in children and teenagers and offers guidance to help parents to identify and manage food-related issues within families. We also talk about the importance of understanding the pressures of social media related to food, weight, body image and self-esteem and the need for parents to be aware of their own emotional baggage around these issues. We hope you can join us for this very important episode.

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27 September 2026

Raising Boys With Emotion

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This week's episode, Raising Boys With Emotion, focuses on the challenge of raising strong, healthy, emotionally intelligent young men. Cultural pressures and our own unconscious biases often leads boys to feel that they shouldn't experience more vulnerable feelings such as fear, anxiety, dependency, and hurt. This sometimes results in a hypermasculinity in which strength gets confused with aggression, protectiveness becomes control, and a disdain for all things vulnerable becomes pervasive. At other times, overwhelming feelings of anxiety, self-loathing, and shame result from a boy's very normal experience of feelings that they have been socialized to believe are not appropriate for boys. Please join us as we discuss the challenge of raising healthy, resilient boys who have access to a full range of human emotions.

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08 September 2026

Postpartum Anxiety and Depression: An Untimely Agony

Welcome to our latest episode of Being a Parent is Hard. Postpartum Anxiety and Depression: An Untimely Agony focuses on the struggle with postpartum anxiety and depression that affects millions of women. We will dive into the very normal experiences of stress, irritability, and isolation that can easily turn into a much more devastating postpartum syndrome. Join us as we discuss both the of the causes of and the strategies to manage postpartum emotional struggles.. Please tune into this very important episode.

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24 August 2026

What is Mom Guilt and Why Do So Many of Us Have It?

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! Our new episode, What is Mom Guilt and Why Do So Many of Us Have It, talks about why moms are especially prone to feel guilty, what we tend to feel guilty about, and how best to manage this very uncomfortable feeling. We discuss how mom guilt is related to each person's unique childhood and the way we are all socialized as women. Perhaps most importantly, we talk about how to avoid passing this down to our daughters and how to model having balance and self-care in our lives. We share personal stories, clinical insights, and practical suggestions. We hope you can join us!

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21 July 2026

Understanding and Managing Teenage Depression: A Parent's Guide

Welcome to this week's episode of Being a Parent is Hard! In this episode we focus understanding adolescent depression--what it looks like, how it's different from normal teenage moodiness and irritability, and what parents should do when they are concerned. We discuss when it's time to seek therapy, consider medication, or head to the emergency room. We also talk about the all important question, "Why now?" We share clinical insights and hands on advice as we take a deep dive into the hormonal, academic, social, and emotional pressures that collide in adolescence. Please join us!

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06 July 2026

The Art of Transparent Communication

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This week's episode focuses on the art of transparent communication with your children and teens. We discuss how to set limits, communicate values, and have honest discussions while still respecting our own need for personal boundaries as parents. We also talk about the need for timing--not trying to communicate in depth when either we or they are upset and not over-communicating in hopes of staving off their anger. Please join us as we share clinical insights and personal anecdotes about learning the art of transparent communication.

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